The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dhaka

Renowned eye-specialist Prof Syed Modasser Ali said the Home Adviser should beg public apology for calling him and other personal physicians of Sheikh Hasina 'partisan doctors'.

Home Advisor Maj Gen (retd) MA Matin termed 'partisan doctors' the physicians who suggested that detained ex-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina should be sent abroad for treatment of her damaged ear.

"Those who stated this are partisan doctors. We can't take actions on the opinion of partisan doctors," Matin told reporters at the Home Ministry Thursday.

Reacting to the Advisor's remarks, Modasser told UNB yesterday evening, "None of us is related to any political party. We are for justice."

He pointed out that Vice-chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheik Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) Prof M Tahir also recommended that Sheikh Hasina should be sent abroad for her ear treatment as it is not possible in the country.

"Prof M Tahir is not personal physician of Sheikh Hasina. Prof Tahir was appointed Vice-chancellor by Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed's caretaker government," Modasser said.

He posed a question: "Does it mean the chief of a neutral caretaker government has appointed a partisan person as the Vice-Chancellor of BSMMU?"

He said when Kader Siddiqui and Kazi Zafar had been in jail, he had differed with the opinion of the government-formed medical board and the government finally had accepted his recommendation. "But the then government did not brand me partisan."

Professor Modasser observed that certainly some quarters gave wrong information about them to the Home Advisor.

"Those who gave the Advisor wrong information should be punished and the Advisor should seek public apology for his remarks about us," he said.